From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 6 16:56:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BE5A37B401 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 16:56:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net (conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C53143E42 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 16:56:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parv_fm@mailsent.net) Received: from sdn-ap-015dcwashp0168.dialsprint.net ([63.188.144.168] helo=moo.holy.cow) by conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17yLFP-0005NJ-00; Sun, 06 Oct 2002 16:55:44 -0700 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 23C86ACB8; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 19:58:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 19:58:20 -0400 From: parv To: Fernando Gleiser Cc: FreeBSD Questions LIST Subject: dilution of /dev/urandom Message-ID: <20021006235820.GA25131@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Fernando Gleiser , FreeBSD Questions LIST References: <20021006005506.W308-100000@atlas.home> <20021006161444.H90352-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021006161444.H90352-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG in message <20021006161444.H90352-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar>, wrote Fernando Gleiser thusly... > > It is not good to mess with /dev/[u]random more than what's really > needed, because you can exhaust the entropy pool how does /dev/u?random dilute/exhaust? that wouldn't have ever occurred in my naive brain; can't the entropy pool be replenished? enlighten please. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message